Rebecca Makkai Knihy

V roce 1985 se Yaleu Tishmanovi, který se stará o galerijní akvizice, podaří husarský kousek – přiveze do Chicaga mimořádnou sbírku obrazů. Zatímco jeho kariéra utěšeně vzkvétá, kolem něj se šíří epidemie AIDS. Přátelé umírají jeden po druhém a po pohřbu přítele Nica tato hrozba sáhne až k Yaleovi. Brzy mu zbyde jen Fiona, Nicova mladší sestra. O třicet let později Fiona v Paříži pátrá po své dceři, která zmizela v sektě. Při pobytu u starého přítele, slavného fotografa, který dokumentoval epidemii v Chicagu, se konečně vyrovnává s tím, jak krize AIDS ovlivnila její život i vztah s dcerou. Prolínající se příběhy Yalea a Fiony nás provedou tragédií 80. let i chaosem současného světa, kdy se oba hrdinové oceňovaného románu snaží najít dobro a odpuštění uprostřed katastrofy.

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD 'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

Presents a collection of wide-ranging, evocative short stories, including several inspired by the author's family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane has chosen to forget her troubled past, including a family tragedy, her unhappy years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of classmate Thalia Keith. The case, which led to the conviction of the school's athletics coach, Omar Evans, has become a topic of online fascination, but Bodie prefers to leave it behind. However, when invited back to teach a two-week course at The Granby School, she feels compelled to revisit the case and its troubling inconsistencies. Did the rush to convict Omar overlook other potential suspects? As Bodie delves deeper, she begins to question her own memories and connections to the events of 1995, realizing she may not have been the outsider she believed herself to be. This novel is both a captivating mystery and a poignant exploration of one woman's confrontation with her past. Renowned author Rebecca Makkai showcases her talent for reinvention in this compelling narrative, marking her as one of the most significant contemporary American writers.

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions and an escape plan, she allows herself to be hijacked by him and the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents?

Set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony, Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But when he finally gets his hands on them he discovers more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a thrilling journey into the past of this eccentric family

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more “A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People "Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review "[An] irresistible literary page-turner." —The Boston Globe The riveting new novel — "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" (San Francisco Chronicle) — from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

Bodie Kane kehrt als Dozentin an ihr ehemaliges Internat zurück, um sich mit der schmerzhaften Erinnerung an den Mord an ihrer Zimmergenossin Thalia Keith auseinanderzusetzen. Eine Schülerin startet einen Podcast über den Fall, was Bodie in einen Strudel aus Erinnerungen und Internetrecherche zieht, während sie die Wahrheit über den Mörder entdeckt.

Epicka powieść o przyjaźni i odkupieniu w obliczu tragedii, finalistka nagrody Pulitzera oraz National Book Award, a przy tym jedna z najważniejszych książek ostatnich lat wg „New York Timesa”, „The Washington Post” i „Entertainment Weekly”.W 1985 roku młody Yale Tishman, dyrektor rozwoju chicagowskiej galerii sztuki, zamierza namieszać w środowisku amerykańskiej bohemy, wprowadzając na wystawę zbiór nadzwyczaj udanych obrazów z lat 20. Jego kariera zdaje się kwitnąć, ale wokół AIDS zbiera okrutne żniwo – przyjaciele Yale’a jeden po drugim umierają i wkrótce zostaje on niemal zupełnie sam. Trzydzieści lat później Fiona, przyjaciółka Yale'a, próbuje odnaleźć w Paryżu swoją zaginioną córkę. Zatrzymuje się na pewien czas u starego przyjaciela, znanego fotografa, który przed laty uwiecznił chicagowską epidemię. Z czasem kobieta zdaje sobie sprawę, w jak wielkim stopniu wydarzenia sprzed lat mogą ukształtować nas samych i nasze relacje z najbliższymi. Losy Yale'a i Fiony przeplatają się na przestrzeni lat, zabierając tym samym czytelników w rozdzierającą podróż przez lata osiemdziesiąte aż po chaos czasów współczesnych. „Porywająca opowieść... Nie oderwiecie się od tej książki”. Michael Cunningham „Wciąga i urzeka”. Tea Obreht